Bullying the PressThe Israelis have taken a very tough, sometimes violent, approach toward journalists covering the country’s aggressive response to the wave of suicide bombings by the Palestinians.
> read moreBy Sherry Ricchiardi

On Their OwnThe Pentagon’s secrecy policy has not only severely restricted access to unfiltered information about the war in Afghanistan, it has helped create an especially risky environment for the working press.
> read moreBy Peter Baker

Premature ObitThe nightly newscast, indeed network news itself, is on the way out:
That was the tenor of much of the coverage of the Letterman-Koppel brouhaha. Here’s why that conclusion is so wrong.
> read moreBy Paul Farhi

Romancing the SourceThe reporter-source relationship can blossom into something more intimate and more troubling, as evidenced by the Suzy Wetlaufer-Jack Welch affair. But other types of close ties between journalists and newsmakers can also pose nettlesome problems.
> read moreBy Lori Robertson

Maybe NotMany commentators declared an end to the age of irony after September 11. Editorial cartoonists and humorists did take a patriotic break from criticizing the U.S. government. But the lull didn’t last long.
> read moreBy Alina Tugend

Unsung HeroesThey don’t get the celebrity treatment and the TV pundit gigs. But many lesser-known Washington journalists are doing sterling work in the shadows.
> read moreBy Nina J. Easton

Time to ThinkFormer San Jose Mercury News Publisher Jay T. Harris is named a distinguished fellow at the Poynter Institute, where he will develop a program for senior media executives.
> read moreBy Kathryn S. Wenner

It’s All GoodLebanon, New Hampshire’s Valley News has a new managing editor--Jeffrey Good, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for the St. Petersburg Times.
> read moreBy Kathryn S. Wenner

Tackling DiversityThe St. Petersburg Times appoints former Clearwater bureau City Editor Sebastian Dortch to the newly created position of diversity officer.
> read moreBy Kathryn S. Wenner

Second ThoughtsToledo’s WTVG-TV changes its plans to have the former mayor work as an investigative reporter.
> read moreBy Kathryn S. Wenner

Stories for SeattleKatherine Pfleger leaves the Associated Press to join the Seattle Times as one of two Washington, D.C., correspondents.
> read moreBy Kathryn S. Wenner